A black palette not much bigger than a phone that swings open into a fan. Each arm carries a row of pans, and every pan is labelled with a code — C01, C18, C33 — printed on the plastic beside it rather than left to be remembered. A white mixing panel sits at the top, a water brush with a green cap clips alongside, and the front of the closed palette prints the count as 25 Colors or 42 Colors above the words Water Colour, Watercolour Set.

The fan is not a gimmick. A flat tray of forty-two pans is too wide to hold, and a stacked tin buries half its colours under a lid. Swinging the arms out spreads every pan into view at once while the whole thing still closes to something you can hold in one hand, and you can leave just two or three arms open when a painting only needs them.

Each set arrives with a printed swatch chart showing every colour brushed out and labelled with its code, which is the part that makes the coding worth anything. You match the wash on the chart rather than guessing from a dry pan — dry watercolour in a pan looks nothing like the same colour wet on paper, and that is where most people pick the wrong one.

Two sizes are stocked and the wider is much the better rate. Twenty-five colours is Rs. 2,250, which is Rs. 90 a colour; forty-two is Rs. 2,800, which is Rs. 66.67. Seventeen extra colours cost Rs. 550 — a third more money for two-thirds more palette.

The water brush is what makes it a genuinely portable kit rather than a portable paint box. It holds water in its barrel and feeds the bristles as you squeeze, so a palette that folds into a hand does not then need a jar carried beside it.

We list this palette from 8 years up. Prices are Rs. 2,250 for twenty-five colours and Rs. 2,800 for forty-two, with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. Tell us which size you want on WhatsApp and we will confirm stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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